Brisbane study tour 3rd day

Had an interesting experience last term with a student who has a compulsive disorder complex - year 2. She objected to a book front cover - Lasagne Brain by John Larkin. The picture upset her, which I can understand, but her reaction was to cock her head away from the general location and even on another occasion to walk backwards into the library. Spoke to her mother and found the 'offending' item and removed it onto my desk in the library office, for about a month. Her mother agreed that it was probably something that her daughter would forget about after a while as I said that I could not remove the book permanently particularly as it was the cover of the book not the content that was offensive.
Very different to the complaint from several years ago with respect to Where did I come from by Peter Mayle.
Censorship was discussed at the National Archives in particular with respect to content being unavailable by law for a certain number of years - interesting that there is a difference between the length of time for state archives and for national archives. Then the possiblity that material in a file can be withheld for various reasons. Found the presenter at National Archives very entertaining. Good visit.

Study Tour in Brisbane

Has been a very interesting visit to State Library, Parliamentary Library and National Archives. Sitting down a lot and listening but perspecitves are different for each library and am glad I chose the variation.
Meeting fellow students with similar interests has been of value. Particularly interesting as to how many are of a similar age!!!
Looking forward to rest of visit.